There was such a scene during the day, in order to prevent this matter from getting out, as soon as Mrs. Jiang returned to her yard, she bumped into a little girl in the mansion chewing her tongue. In a fit of rage, he asked the maid to be gagged and tied up. After returning to Rongjintang, the more she thought about it, the more angry she became, and asked Mama Jin to pass on all the stewards and mothers-in-law in the house, and threw the mouthy maid in the courtyard and said fiercely: "If you dare to go out and chew the root of your tongue in the courtyard of the county lord today, you will be like this girl, first hit thirty boards, and then sell them without dying!" You've all memorized the old man clearly!! ”

Mama Gui raised her voice and said, "Fight! Then a rough woman came up and pressed the maid down, and in front of everyone, she started the board one by one. After a few clicks, the maid fainted directly, and soon the maid's lower body was red, and the housekeeper and the maid who were watching around were so frightened that their faces were like earth, and they were in a cold sweat.

"Back to the old lady, the thirty boards are finished!"

"Drag it to the firewood room, and sell it if you don't die in three days!" Mama Gui said sternly, "You all have a good look today, which one dares to say more, and the end will be the same as her!" The people in the courtyard hurriedly retreated.

After dealing with these things, the old lady still felt panicked in her heart, and even lunch and dinner were useless, so she said that she had a headache and lay down directly. Seeing this, Mama Jin was about to go to Doctor Wang, "No need, you all go down, I'll rest alone." ”

Hearing Mama Zhang's words, Nanling Mo didn't dare to delay, and took Mei Xi and Mei Qian to Rongjin Hall.

"Grandmother, what's the matter, why don't you go and invite Dr. Wang over?" As soon as Nan Lingmo entered the house and saw that there was no doctor in the house, she asked Mama Jin who was standing aside.

Mama Gui hurriedly came up and whispered: "County Lord, the old lady didn't let the imperial doctor be invited, there was such a fuss today, and the old lady hurt his mind and had a headache and brain fever." The slave maid originally planned to invite Dr. Wang, but the old lady refused to let her. The slave has no choice but to ask you to come. ”

Nan Lingmo nodded, and hurriedly asked Mei Xi to take the medicine box over and check the pulse of Old Taijun Jiang.

"County Lord, what's wrong with the old lady?" After Nanling Mo's pulse was diagnosed, Mama Gui asked on the side.

"It's okay, my grandmother is old, so I shouldn't be angry. I'll just give my grandmother two injections and give her a dose of the decoction. Nan Lingmo said to Mei Xi again, "Go and prepare the soju, I want to give my grandmother an acupuncture." ”

An hour later, Nanling Mo received the needle, wrote down a prescription and said to Mei Xi: "Mei Xi, you go and prepare all the medicine in the pharmacy, take it here to decoction, Mama, you can prepare some porridge and side dishes for your grandmother, this medicine cannot be taken on an empty stomach." After a while, my grandmother will wake up and let her drink some porridge! ”

"Yes, slave and maid will go." Mama Jin and Mei Xi hurriedly went out to work.

After Mrs. Jiang woke up, she drank porridge and medicine, and felt a lot of fatigue in her body, looked at Nanling Mo, who had been guarding the side, and said, "Mo'er, thank you for your hard work." She looked at it again, "It's the second shift now, why don't you just rest at Grandmother's for the night?" ”

Nan Lingmo nodded, and the old lady was about to ask Narcissus to clean up the room.

"Don't bother, I'll just rest on this warm floor." Nan Lingmo said coquettishly to the old lady, "Grandmother, can you let your granddaughter sleep with you?" Mo'er hadn't slept with her grandmother for a long time. ”

Mrs. Jiang laughed, pinched her face and said with a smile: "It's all over, and you're still playing like a child." That's it, Narcissus, you clean up the warmth, and don't let the county lord catch a cold at night. ”

Nanling Mo was sick with the old princess, so she asked the academy for three days off. On the second day, Concubine Zhang really took off her hairpin early in the morning and knelt at the door of Rongjin Hall, and Mama Zeng and the eldest girl Zhu'an behind her also knelt behind her.

"Old Taijun, it's all the concubine's body is not good, the concubine's body is not clear, and she let people deceive her, almost causing a big disaster, and ask the old lady to forgive the concubine." Zhang said as he kowtowed and pleaded guilty.

"Zhang Niangniang kowtowed here early this morning, aren't you afraid of disturbing your grandmother's purity?" Nan Lingmo walked out and said with a smile, "Grandmother was a little unwell yesterday and is still resting now, Zhang Niangniang is quiet." ”

Concubine Zhang heard this as if she had seen a ghost, she stared at the smile on the corner of Nanling Mo's mouth, and said in surprise: "You, you, why are you here." ”

"Zhang Niangniang, I'm afraid that I didn't wake up too early and didn't hear what the county lord just said?" Nanling Mo sneered, "The county lord has already said that my grandmother was unwell last night, and Mo'er naturally wants to serve on her side." Zhang Niangniang should go back, and wait for grandmother to wake up and come to say goodbye! As he spoke, he walked to Concubine Zhang's side, bent down and said to Concubine Zhang's ear: "Zhang, you kneel well, and when your grandmother wakes up, you will have time to express your feelings." ”

An hour had passed, and Concubine Zhang's face had turned pale. Nanling Mei, who rushed to hear the news, rushed into Rongjin Hall, and shouted at Nanling Mo, who was dining with the old princess, regardless of it: "Second sister, you are really a good means to let my mother kneel outside for an hour, why do you do this?!" ”

"Presumptuous !!" Mrs. Jiang put down the chopsticks in her hand heavily, "Mei'er, why did you talk to your sister?!" ”

"Big sister, you have misunderstood, it was Zhang Niangniang who took off her hairpin and knelt outside, I could have persuaded it early in the morning, and the people in the yard heard it, but Zhang Niangniang insisted on kneeling there, not listening to persuasion, sister, I have nothing to do!"

Nan Lingmei was choked by Nan Lingmo's words, and she bit her lip and stood there without speaking. As soon as Mrs. Jiang waved her hand, someone came in and removed the dining table.

"How long has Zhang been kneeling?" Mrs. Jiang asked casually with the tea.

"It's been an hour and a half."

"Let her in!"

As soon as Concubine Zhang came in, she knelt in front of the old lady with a normal voice, and was about to argue for herself with tears in her eyes, but Jiang Lao Shejun said before she could speak: "Zhang, yesterday's matter is over, you can't understand people's mistakes, so you can be grounded for a month!" ”

Zhang didn't expect this matter to be so easy to get over, and he was asking Mama Zeng and Zhu'an to convince her to get up, planning to go back to her yard. At this time, Mama Zhang outside the door came in and said, "Back to the old lady, Mei Xue, the maid in the county lord's yard, said that there is something important to return to the old lady." ”

"Let her in!" Mrs. Jiang looked at Nan Lingmo suspiciously, not knowing what her maid had to reply.

"Slaves and maids see the old lady, the county lord, the county lord and the concubine Zhang." After Mei Xue saluted, she took out a doll from her sleeve, knelt down and replied directly: "Old lady, yesterday's master also said that the county lord only reported his name and birthday in order to pray for the old lady and the prince, and there was no doll in the box." The county lord felt that there was something wrong with this matter, so he asked the slave to go privately to check the origin of the doll. ”

Mei Xue raised the doll above her head and returned: "Back to the old lady, this doll was deliberately framed by someone to our county lord." ”

"What do you say?!! Deliberately framed?! Mrs. Jiang was taken aback.

"Yes, old lady. The slave carefully looked at the clothes on the doll, which was made of blue silk from the south of the Yangtze River. The clothing made of Bisu silk is Bisu satin, although it is not a tribute, but it is not a clothing that ordinary people can afford. The slave maid ran all over the capital to be able to enter the Bisu satin shop, and the shopkeeper told the slave maid that although the color of this material was unusually green, it was easy to fade and not easy to preserve because of the dry weather in the north, and there was no shop in the capital selling this kind of clothing before June. ”

Zhang, who was about to leave, suddenly felt as if he had been nailed under his feet, and he couldn't move for half a minute. Mama Zeng and Zhu'an behind them were also uneasy.

Seeing this, Mama Jin took the doll over, looked at it for a long time and nodded to the old princess, and then heard Mei Xue say: "And the slave and maid have compared the embroidery of this doll, it seems that it is not the Beijing embroidery and northern embroidery commonly used in our capital, such as the southern embroidery." The slave maid thought, I am afraid that such a thing cannot be known to people outside, and it must be secretly sewn. ”

When Mama Jin heard this, she looked at the doll carefully, flipped over the stitches, and pondered: "This, this seems to be the embroidery of Mama Zeng next to Concubine Zhang." The slave and maid recognized this method of tying the knot, which was a method of winding around three to one. ”

"Huh?" When the old princess heard that she took the doll and looked at it, her face sank directly. "Mama Zhang, Mama Chen, take someone to Mama Zeng's room to search."

Concubine Zhang's master and servant knelt down again, and Concubine Zhang stammered in fright: "Old lady, this must be a false accusation, Mama Zeng is the nurse of the concubine, how could she do such a rebellious thing." Nan Lingmei just wanted to stand up and say something, but she saw Mrs. Jiang's warning eyes looking at her, so she sat down again.

Mrs. Jiang didn't look at the three of them, just sat aside and drank tea without saying a word. The store was silent for a moment, and only the sound of each other's breathing could be heard.

After a stick of incense, Mama Zhang and Mama Chen took the things found from Mama Zeng's house in their hands, knelt down and replied: "Old lady, these things are the rags of Bisu satin found in Mama Zeng's room, as well as other embroidery items of Mama Zeng to compare the stitches. In addition, the slaves and maids also found a package of medicinal powder and silver tickets worth 5,000 taels in Grandma Zeng's room. ”

"A slave maid has taken so much money of five thousand taels, even if it is a reward, it is impossible to reward so much!" Nan Lingmo opened her mouth and said, "Grandmother, my granddaughter remembers that a month ago, because she wanted to prepare a dowry for her eldest sister, Zhang Niangniang's mother's family sent some materials to make clothes for the eldest sister for the four seasons. This Bisu satin is not sold in the capital, but Jiangnan is afraid that it is sold all the time. ”

"Nanling Mo, don't spew blood!!" Nan Lingmei didn't care about anything when she heard it, so she slapped the table directly and stood up and pointed at Nan Lingmo's nose and scolded.

"Presumptuous! Who allows you to talk to your sister like this, come, bring the eldest lady back, and don't come out again until you get married! ”

Two stout mothers-in-law soon came in outside the door, and directly stuffed an embroidered handkerchief full of foul smell into Nan Lingmei's mouth and dragged her back to Tangli Ju directly.

"Mama Zeng, now that the evidence is conclusive, don't you still admit it?!"

"Concubine Niangniang, Concubine Niangniang, you save the slave maid," Before Mama Zeng finished speaking, Concubine Zhang immediately got up and shook off Mama Zeng's pleading hand and said: "Mama Zeng, you are my nurse, I will take you well, I didn't expect you to dare to do such a thing behind my back, this is a great crime against the sky, and you will be punished by the Nine Clans!! ”

As soon as she heard the Zhujiu clan, Mama Zeng was immediately dumbfounded, and she knew in her heart that Concubine Zhang was threatening her with her family. At this moment, she finally understood that Concubine Zhang was going to abandon her. She no longer begged for mercy, but kept kowtowing to the old princess with tears in her eyes: "It's all the slave's fault, it's the slave maid who hates the county lord and makes my young lady go to the temple to practice for more than half a year, so she came up with such an idea, made a doll and secretly put it in the box." But the slave just wanted the county lord to be imprisoned in the family temple to taste the suffering of my young lady in the temple, the slave didn't expect that this witch Gu was a great crime against the sky to kill the head! ”

None of the people present were moved. Seeing that there was no hope of begging for mercy, Mama Zeng suddenly changed her words, "It's all slaves and maids who make their own decisions, I'm sorry Miss, and please take care of Miss." After speaking, he kowtowed to Concubine Zhang, stood up, and suddenly hit the pillar by the door.

"Ahhhh Everyone was shocked.

"Hold her !!"

But after all, it was a step too late, and the flesh and blood of Mama Zeng were blurred, and the blood even splashed on Zhu An's body, and Zhu An was so frightened that he fainted directly. Concubine Zhang looked at the dead Mama Zeng and felt sad, but she couldn't admit it, so she had to swallow her tears and said to the old princess: "This matter is because the concubine is not strict in discipline, I don't want to have someone like Mama Zeng around me, the concubine knows her mistake, and asks the old lady to punish her." ”

Mrs. Jiang was only better yesterday, but today she had a headache in the face of this series of changes. She said to Concubine Zhang with disgust: "I thought you really went to the temple to reform yourself, but I didn't expect that you were deceiving the old body." Zhang, you go to the family temple for the time being, and when Mei'er gets married, you will go to the Zhuangzi to raise it! I'll leave the rest to you, Mama Jin, help me in and lie down! ”

"Yes, my granddaughter knows. Grandmother, don't worry about paying attention to your body. ”